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Re: Fwd: Re: Quor's cypher
[email protected]: (21 Sep 1997)
> This is a really nifty encryption program. It runs about half the speed
> of rc4, but seems much more secure.
>
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> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: tell me what you think of this...
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> [snip]
>
> /* Qcypher.c */
>
> [snip]
Has anybody got anything good against this ? I can get about
1/32 of the state with a simple form of differential cryptanalysis,
but can't see how to progress it beyond that.
My attack takes a long chunk of known text and looks for repetition.
ppppppppppppppp.11.pppppppppppppppppppppp
ccccccccccccccc.22.cccccccccccccccccccccc
When a two neighbouring p-c pairs are the same you can test
whether they have the same value of a and b.
(That is a_n == a_n+1 and b_n == b+n+1, a != b usually.)
This involves 16 inputs to each byte - very cheap.
What I really want next is to know "a".
Because c is always known (it's only a counter) if you always knew
"a" you'd have a handle on "b" because only 2 (predictable) elements of
the state array change with each byte encrypted.
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